The passengers and staff of a Delta Airlines flight were left horrified and shocked after a woman started breastfeeding her cat mid-flight. 

The unidentified woman, along with her cat, was on a flight from Syracuse in New York to Atlanta in Georgia. Not long after the flight took off, the woman started breastfeeding her cat and when the staff urged her to stop, she refused. 

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The Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting Systems (ACARS) tried to alert the Delta Crew in Atlanta by sending a message that a passenger in seat 13A “is breastfeeding a cat and will not put the cat back in its carrier when [flight attendant] requested.”  

The Delta’s Red Coat team was requested by the Delta employees, to meet the uncooperative and unaccommodating pet-owner upon landing.   

The Delta Red Coats team is described as the “elite airport customer service experts, identifiable by their bright red coats. They are specially trained to handle on-the-stop customer issues,” by the airlines. 

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A TikTok video was shared on November 13, by a flight attendant named Ainsley Elizabeth, which described the bizarre incident. 

“This woman had one of those, like, hairless cats swaddled up in a blanket so it looked like a baby,” Ainsley Elizabeth said in her video “Her shirt was up and she was trying to get the cat to latch and she wouldn’t put the cat back in the carrier. And the cat was screaming for its life.”

 She also added that the “security met the flight and asked her to stop.”

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An aviation enthusiast posted further details about the incident on Twitter after speaking with co-passengers of the flight. According to the details posted by him, the woman continued to breastfeed her pet cat despite several warnings by the crew.